Performing Arts
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What's new: Steppenwolf opens "The Night Alive"Sep 12, 2014 6:00 am - Steppenwolf Theatre opens its season with director Henry Wishcamper's Chicago premiere of "The Night Alive," by Irish playwright Conor McPherson. A middle-aged Dublin m...
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5 things to do in the suburbs this weekendSep 12, 2014 1:00 am - Elgin debuts its first fringe festival, Des Plaines celebrates the start of autumn and Wheaton flashes back to the days of the Revolutionary War. These are just a few of...
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Fine cast trumps stage design in 'Brighton Beach Memoirs'Sep 11, 2014 5:45 am - A note to set designer Ian Zywica: Just because a play like “Brighton Beach Memoirs” has a specific location in its title doesn't necessarily mean that you have to liter...
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Goodman, AWJ seek aspiring criticsSep 11, 2014 1:01 am - Goodman Theatre and the Association for Women Journalists invite girls in the 11th grade to apply for the eighth annual Cindy Bandle Young Critics program for 2014-2...
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Revisit the Roaring '20s at Jazz Age Party in the ParkSep 10, 2014 5:55 am - It's the closest you'll get to partying with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in the Fox Valley. On Sunday, Sept. 14, Tri-City Swing, in partnership with the St. Charles A...
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Michael C. Hall to be 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch'Sep 08, 2014 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - Michael C. Hall's next step is going to be a gender-bending one - the former "Dexter" star will play the rock chanteuse at the center of "Hedwig and the Angry...
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Broadway League backs down, agrees to honor RiversSep 08, 2014 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - In the end, Broadway's leaders saw the light - and decided to turn them off. The Broadway League, which represents theater owners and producers, reversed itse...
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No Broadway dimming of lights for Joan RiversSep 08, 2014 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - Despite being a long champion of New York theater, Joan Rivers will not be memorialized by the dimming of Broadway's lights. The Broadway League, which repre...
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Weekend picks: Germanfest brings beer, brats to Hoffman EstatesSep 08, 2014 4:15 pm - Brats & beer Hoffman Estates' Platzkonzert Germanfest expands to two days for 2014. There's German food, beer, games and more this weekend at the Virginia Mary Hay...
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Elgin celebrates art on the fringeSep 08, 2014 5:45 am - Art can happen anywhere. One thing co-founder Sean Hargadon hopes artists and audiences take away from the first Elgin Fringe Festival is that art doesn't just happen i...